FlexRSS plugin

[jjb123]

I am still having problems. A new Colbert Report came out yesterday and the title was a perfect match in the filter's test but it still didn't start the download. Is there something I need to do to make it update or something?

[DeathWolf]

Is there any chance negative filters could be added?
They really help filtering out bad/non-wanted content.

check out the patterns section of the documentation.

but basically you can create regular expressions to filter out unwanted content.

like

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(?!.*720p|.*AC3)

filters out 720p & AC3 quality files

I've just tried this, and it did not work...
It downloaded files even though it should not...

The filter was just (?!.*720) and matched against "testlink720blablalba".
Note, even in the tester it matched it despite these criterions.
I also tried (?!.*720.*) and (?!720) without success


EDIT: my bad on that one. I didnt think enough:
One of course has to anchor the neg match to somewhere. So ^(?!.*720) works perfectly:)
It's all working fine now.

[johnnyg]

I am still having problems. A new Colbert Report came out yesterday and the title was a perfect match in the filter's test but it still didn't start the download. Is there something I need to do to make it update or something?

can you post your filter?

seeing colbert report is a dated show, the filter should have %y (or %Y), %m & %d (which represent year, month & date respectively).

[jjb123]

I think I figured it out, the feed I was using didn't link directly to the torrent file. Would any of the feeds for eztv.it work?

http://www.eztv.it/rss.xml
http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/
http://www.bt-chat.com/rss.php?mode=group&group=3

[johnnyg]

I think I figured it out, the feed I was using didn't link directly to the torrent file. Would any of the feeds for eztv.it work?

http://www.eztv.it/rss.xml
http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/
http://www.bt-chat.com/rss.php?mode=group&group=3

I use http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/ and have had no problems.

simplest way to create a guaranteed correct filter:

• open up FlexRSS
• under feeds, expand your feed (in this case EZTV)
• scroll down 'till you see the show you want (eg. Colbert Report)
  alternatively you can just start typing "Colbert Report" and it'll automatically search for the first match
• right click on the show once you've found it and select create filter
• it'll create a filter, modify the download location if you want
• hit save and you're done

note you'll have to right click on your feed and hit "Refresh feed" to straight away use your filter.

that should do the trick

[jjb123]

Ok, thanks that helped a lot, the problem I wasn't refreshing when I added the feed. Now, from now on do I have to refresh the feed when I want to download stuff or will it do it automatically? (I.E. when a new episode comes out will it automatically download without any intervention?)

[johnnyg]

Ok, thanks that helped a lot, the problem I wasn't refreshing when I added the feed. Now, from now on do I have to refresh the feed when I want to download stuff or will it do it automatically? (I.E. when a new episode comes out will it automatically download without any intervention?)

it automatically checks the feed at startup and then every 900s (15min) for new episodes.
you can change this interval time to whatever you want (although I find 15min is fine).

there would be no point to the plugin if you had to manually refresh the feed

the reason you just manually refresh the feed after you've added a filter is to save you the 15min wait.

[jjb123]

Oh, ok thanks. Great plugin once you figure everything out

[kin]

FlexRSS chokes on about every RSS feed from a.scarywater.net. Matching for filters works fine, but since they use some exotic enclosures instead of direct links for their feeds, FlexRSS dies with the expected

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Warning: torrent content-type not application/x-bittorrent
Raising error: 
*** FlexRSS error: unable to add torrent.

The RSS links look like this:

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http://a.scarywater.net/triad/#o105

which respectively points here:

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<a id="o105" /><a href="%5BTriad%5D_Kaiji_-_14.mkv.torrent" title="[Triad] Kaiji - 14.mkv">[Triad] Kaiji - 14.mkv</a>

Is there any way this can be worked around on the parser side or will this have to be fixed by the tracker maintainers?

[pete_h]

I just right-clicked on a feed with the intention of manually refreshing it, and accidentally clicked on "Delete feed" instead. I was quite irked.

There needs to be a confirmation dialog before deleting a feed, or, even better, a "restore deleted feed" button in case of accidents.